i get it but in real life "the puzzle" still far away from finish ..... and the picture near puzzle is not just a "duck" .. a lot of picture near the puzzle

There are a lot of details still to be filled in about evolution, agreed. But in the complete absence of evidence of any competing theory, and the abundant evidence for evolution, it's still the best explanation.

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i'm agree with you until now evolution theory is the best explanation than religion told ( creation )but is not possible in one day appear another theory is make more sense than evolution

Sure, but don't forget. Evolutionary theory has millions of pieces of supporting data. A new theory would have to explain those just as well as evolution, plus, it would have to be able to explain some new data that evolution fails to explain. In terms of the analogy presented at the beginning of this post, if evolution claimed that we had a picture of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, but that very last piece had a picture of a duck on it when we found it, the new theory would say that we had a picture of Winnie, Tigger, and a duck. Notice that, even then, our answer wouldn't be "it's a duck" (i.e., creationism) because we can already see enough of the puzzle to definitively state that the puzzle we're working on doesn't match the box.

So, what would it look like if evolution were proved to be incorrect tomorrow? We have a good example of that in Newtonian mechanics. Relativity replaced Newtonian mechanics because it could not adequately describe the motion of objects with a very high energy, or in a very large gravitational field. Despite that, Newtonian mechanics is still adequate to solve almost all problems we deal with in day-to-day life, and it is still taught in all basic physics courses. In that same vein, if tomorrow evolution were found to be incorrect, it would still have the same predictive power as before, but we would recognize that under certain conditions it did not make the correct predictions, and the new theory would have to be used.

i'm agree with you until now evolution theory is the best explanation than religion told ( creation )but is not possible in one day appear another theory is make more sense than evolution

Sure, but don't forget. Evolutionary theory has millions of pieces of supporting data. A new theory would have to explain those just as well as evolution, plus, it would have to be able to explain some new data that evolution fails to explain. In terms of the analogy presented at the beginning of this post, if evolution claimed that we had a picture of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, but that very last piece had a picture of a duck on it when we found it, the new theory would say that we had a picture of Winnie, Tigger, and a duck. Notice that, even then, our answer wouldn't be "it's a duck" (i.e., creationism) because we can already see enough of the puzzle to definitively state that the puzzle we're working on doesn't match the box.

So, what would it look like if evolution were proved to be incorrect tomorrow? We have a good example of that in Newtonian mechanics. Relativity replaced Newtonian mechanics because it could not adequately describe the motion of objects with a very high energy, or in a very large gravitational field. Despite that, Newtonian mechanics is still adequate to solve almost all problems we deal with in day-to-day life, and it is still taught in all basic physics courses. In that same vein, if tomorrow evolution were found to be incorrect, it would still have the same predictive power as before, but we would recognize that under certain conditions it did not make the correct predictions, and the new theory would have to be used.

Good. Everyone should be aware of this point... although my assumption is since evolution has basically been proven science fact, we would only expand on it, alluding to what you describe from Newtonian physics and general relativity..

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